Daniela Campins

In the Middle of This Frase, like its title, is a multi-lingual play on unexpected relations – relations between the languages of image and text, representation and abstraction, writing and drawing. In Campins' series of paintings, low relief linear marks evoke cursive writing and sit atop textured, palimpsest/pentimento grounds. Notions of the written word and its process are conjured while uncoded images are simultaneously asserted when marks become clouds, sky, and mountains, and profound illusions of layered space are beheld. Every drawing/writing action in Campins’ work is met with and amplified by a conscious painterly response, be it color, materiality, or texture.

Daniela Campins was born in Leeds, England and grew up in Venezuela since the age of two. After moving to Southern California Daniela earned her Bachelors of Fine Art in Drawing and Painting from California State University Long Beach and her Masters of Fine Arts at the University of California Santa Barbara. In 2011 she was awarded the VCU arts Painting and Printmaking Fountainhead Arts Fellowship. She has been included in exhibitions at The Torrance Museum of Art, Boom: Los Angeles, GLAMFA, New Wight Gallery in UCLA, Atkinson Gallery at the Santa Barbara City College, the Santa Barbara Museum of Fine Art (CA), Reynolds Gallery in Richmond (VA), Art Platform—Los Angeles, and the Rheeway Gallerie (CA).